Michelle Kelley, LCSW

Licensed Counselor

Mother - daughter counseling is a speciality area at Girls Stand Strong. Whether your daughter (or mother) is old or young, learning some communication strategies and have a third person to mediate can be extremely beneficial. Navigating through those tumultuous teen years is not easy. Parent / child relationships often suffer. It's amazing to see the positive results in mother/daughter relationships after a few sessions. Please reach out for some support and guidance.

Marianne Clyde, LMFT

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

Each family member has an important role to play. I teach families how to recognize each others' strengths and learn to work together toward common goals. Without blaming or scapegoating, families can move beyond a place of being stuck in unhealthy behavior patterns, each taking responsibility for his/her own actions and recognizing how he/she influences the family dynamic.

Well Marriage Center, Ph.D, Psy.D., LMFT, LPC, LCSW

Marriage Counseling Specialists

Family therapy is at the heart of Well Marriage Center. We specialize in helping family's understand their histories and how each of them have been shaped and formed. We empower families to open communication, build trust, regain a sense of friendship and fun, and support each other in our own hopes and aspirations. Healthy families provide an important foundation for healthy living.

Carlos Durana, Ph.D.

Licensed Clinical Psychologist and Licensed Professional Counselor

The focus of my family therapy work is the family as a whole. Working on the relationship between family members is more effective than just treating the person that is supposed to be in need of treatment. From my perspective, family therapy work sees individuals in relationships to others. As a result, the attention shifts from the symptomatic individual and problem is seen as the family as a whole. The goal of my family therapy work is to help establish a “functional family” – one in which needs and the desired goals of closeness, identity, self-expression, and meaning are met.

Colleen Neumann, PsyD, MSW

Licensed Clinical Psychologist

Colleen practices Family Therapy with members of families using in person, telephone, and internet tools. She works to identify goals of each member of the family and strives to unite members of the family over their common goals. Colleen practices a strengths-based and family systems-oriented practice to help promote communication, trust, and enjoyment of the family members.

Ashburn Psychological Services

Ashburn Psychological Services

Ashburn Psychological Services therapists and counselors offer a variety approaches to family therapy including: family systems therapy, interpersonal therapy, psychodynamic therapy, relationship education, etc. Often families come to therapy with an identified problem for one or more family member. Typical problems include divorce, remarriage, step parenting and blended family struggles, alcoholism/substance use, death or a medical illness or condition. At other times, the presenting problem has more to do with personality or communication issues for certain family members that can be addressed and worked on in treatment over time. We at Ashburn Psychological Services are here to help.

Laurie Levine, LCSW

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Family relationships are hard and demanding and frustrating. We strive for peace and harmony in our homes and often find ourselves angry, in tears and feeling powerless. I work with nuclear families, blended families and adoptive families who are living in chaos. I educate parents on setting appropriate limits and boundaries and STICKING TO THEM while also teaching kids how to have respect, follow rules as well as having an appropriate voice and getting their needs met. You WILL see positive results; bringing structure and balance into the home is the bare minimum you will experience, when you find yourselves laughing together as a family, you will know you have arrived.

Athena Staik, Ph.D., LMFT

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

Free and open expression of thoughts and feelings is a hallmark of healthy family relationships. When members of a family feel safe to be themselves and express their thoughts and upsetting feelings, relationships flourish. Reactivity is common in family relationships. It simply says that your brain has activated your body's fight-flee-or-freeze system. A relational approach to healing family relationships focuses on forming quality connections in which each member feels they can express themselves and give from a place of love rather than fear, and non judgment allows each to grow in a supportive context.

Linda Ritchie, Ph.D.

Licensed Professional Counselor/Marriage & Family Therapist

Typically, family therapy will bring the entire family together in therapy sessions. However, it may be that individuals in the family also see the therapist alone. There may also be times when individuals who are not a member of the family (such as a teacher or school counselor) participate in a therapy session with the family if their participation would be of benefit to the family.
We can help your family learn how to better solve problems and how to better express thoughts and feelings. In family therapy, family members will learn about family roles and rules. Family members will examine behavior patterns and learn to identify issues that cause conflict.

John Raymond, MA, MS, LPC

Licensed Professional Counselor

Families have as many dynamics as there are members. Each family has its own system to handle life's challenges. Sometimes, some of these systems do not operate effectively. The goal of family therapy is to help families understand the systems used, how they are not helping, and learn new skills to better equip the family to provide a safe and secure home for all to thrive